John Henrik Clarke Quotes

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'

I've always gotten along with guys better.

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.